A friend of mine has a passion for the AWI and for quite a while now has talked about it but not moved forward with it. So about a month ago I gave him a gentle push off the cliff of indecision and told him I would help and paint one side. He chose the Patriots, which was fine with me because I think I'll have an easier time painting the British (or so I thought).
So after a discussion about what scale and what ruleset we'd like to start with we landed on 28mm and the ruleset to start with in Sharpe's Practice. I wanted nothing to do with plastic, I just wanted metals so I could get straight on with painting them. We decided Perry Miniatures had the best line and choice for the period.
Last week our order arrived and I got stuck in right away. Bayonet charge style! We are going to start with the Southern campaign as this provides us with lots and lots of small skirmish type battles that are suited for Sharpe's Practice.
I've painted up this week 16 Cavalry of the Queen's Rangers Hussars and Dragons. Here are a few photos.
... the Hussars
What! No red coats?
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Those look lovely!
Haha, thanks Anton.
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Kevin
Splendid looking British cavalry!
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Thanks Iain, a fun hardy Loyalist unit to paint.
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Kevin
Great job on those guys. I like the 5 o'clock shadows.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dave, after reading about the campaigns in the South I thought it due justice to paint some hard campaigning looking troops. If only the Perry's made them in more tattered looking clothing.
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Kevin